Posted on 04/18/2016 6:10:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
She was only 17 years-old when she died. Her father cut out her tongue and burned her alive.
What was her crime, and why did this man kill his own daughter in the most horrific imaginable way?
He was a Saudi Arabian official who worked with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – the religious police – and when his daughter became a Christian, he butchered and murdered her.
What does this have to do with Starbucks and Apple?
Both these companies blast Americans who stand for religious liberties and conservative moral values, even threatening states that will protect those liberties and values, claiming this discriminates against gays and lesbians.
Yet they have stores all over Saudi Arabia, a country where gays can be executed and where Muslims can kill their own family members if they convert to Christianity, as happened with this 17-year-old in 2008.
What sickening hypocrisy.
Last year, when Indiana passed a religious freedoms bill, ensuring that its citizens would not be forced to violate their consciences and participate in things like gay weddings, Tim Cook, the openly gay CEO of Apple, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post, stating, “There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country.”
Cook opined that, “America’s business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business. At Apple, we are in business to empower and enrich our customers’ lives. We strive to do business in a way that is just and fair.”
His words sounded noble: “This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue. This is about how we treat each other as human beings. Opposing discrimination takes courage. With the lives and dignity of so many people at stake, it’s time for all of us to be courageous.”
And so Cook, acted “courageously,” threatening Indiana with a loss of business if the state did not reverse itself, and in a matter of days, the governor and legislature caved in to the pressure, as Apple, along with other major players, succeeded in bullying the people of Indiana.
But when it comes to countries like Saudi Arabia, where adulterers are beheaded on Friday afternoons in city squares, where thieves have their hands cut off, where those who speak against the government can be lashed 1,000 times, where someone posting openly gay messages on social media can be imprisoned, and where the beheaded victims are hung on crosses and displayed publicly for days, Apple is silent, content to make its money and not rock the Muslim boat.
What “courage.”
Or, more accurately, what hypocrisy.
Starbucks has also been an outspoken advocate of “gay rights,” with CEO Howard Schultz telling those “who support traditional marriage over gay marriage that their patronage is not needed at the coffee chain.”
Earlier this month, Starbucks joined more than 100 companies (including Apple) in urging North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the bathroom safety bill, which allegedly discriminates against LGBT rights.
How bold and courageous of Starbucks.
But when it comes to Saudi Arabia, not only does Starbucks operate all over this religiously-oppressive country, but the coffee giant completely capitulated to strict Islamic standards, removing the mermaid from its corporate logo.
Yes, you read that right.
Starbucks changed its logo so as not to offend Muslim sensibilities, since the mermaid image apparently displayed too much flesh.
But when it comes to offending Christians, Starbucks could care less, introducing “Holiday” cups last December in place of “Christmas” cups and trashing Christian sensitivities when they are in conflict with gay sensitivities.
Now, I don’t doubt that Cook and Schultz feel strongly about their views and actually believe that these important religious liberties bills are a threat to LGBT rights.
But their selective outrage is sickening and their moral hypocrisy glaring.
And so, when they pull their businesses from countries like China, with all its human rights violations, and Saudi Arabia, with its atrocities carried out in the name of Islam, we can take their indignation seriously.
Until then, the louder they protest here in America, the louder they shout their hypocrisy.
just tweeted these guys too about this.
and Netflix, coke, Microsoft, facebook, maybe a half dozen others.
if anything besides insults ever gets back to me, i’ll let you know.
plan on upping it to three or four a day to each.
I have brain damage, so i’m protected under disabilities law, don’t worry.
Enemies foreign and domestic: The left(Obama-Starbucks) are afraid of foreign enemies but not domestic. Bill Clinton is the same. Remember Elian Gonzales? They are hypocrites as well as cowards.
We can milk resentment towards these corporations in an election year over their policies to suggest the Republican Governor of NC is some sort of hero and help the GOP win, but not frankly call the corporations and their leaders out as Capitalists who act like Communists.
The latest target of corporate angst is the NC governor, but last month the Georgia GOP governor Nathan Deal vetoed a bill protecting religious institutions who don’t agree with gay marriage. He did it under pressure from corporations.
You think McCrory is some sort of hero for the election year transgender law, but last year he vetoed a religious freedom law just like Georgia’s Deal. Now he’s running for re-election and once the courts are done after McCrory safely gets re-elected and the transgender law is outlawed, what next?
The corporations do not support the Constitution and its guarantee of ‘freedom of religion’ in the First Amendment.
That is the issue.
Big Business Capitalists supporting a Communist or Nazi notion of the place of religion in society.
If the Capitalists act like Communists, why give a d**n about their critics, like Bernie Sanders?
The hypocrisy is easy to understand, when you realize that muzzies are the latest and greatest A#1 certified victim group in the USA, where they are a guaranteed voting and donation block for the democrat party. So the ruling party in this country will never hold them to account for their crimes against humanity.
In muzzy countries, starbucks has no intention of ever criticizing them for throwing gays off buildings, hanging gays, and denying women their human rights.
Sheesh.
I agree with the author of the article but at the
risk of sounding like the grammar police it should
be “could not care less” rather than “could care less”.
Corporate business people are nearly as spineless as academics.
They are group-thinkers who go with the flow.
They jump on board leftist political issues because it has become a fashion, and above all - THEY DON’T PAY A PRICE FOR IT. .
If their future money, legality or status of their leaders were indeed threatened, they would not dare get involved in politics. Conservatives never punish a business for disagreeable leftist tactics, while leftists will always lobby, cajole and punish a business for acts they don’t agree with. So you can naturally see how they are going to behave.
it should be “could not care less” rather than “could care less”.
that ruined an otherwise fine article...for no reason, as it is a very simple thing...
They are liberals. You don’t expect the lunatic left to practice what it preaches or to show any sort of favoritism to Christians do you?
Yes. It makes the writer seem a little less learned.
Although I have my own writing issues I intend for
my thoughts to be shared only with my peers here at
FR where we are on fairly equal footing.
Both these companies blast Americans who stand for religious liberties and conservative moral values, even threatening states that will protect those liberties and values, claiming this discriminates against gays and lesbians. Yet they have stores all over Saudi Arabia, a country where gays can be executed and where Muslims can kill their own family members if they convert to Christianity...IOW, it isn't hypocrisy at all -- it's a consistent policy backing despotism, jihad, and genocide.
It’s not that they’re hypocrites - it’s that they hate traditional Americans.
Who needs Starbuck’s overpriced sissy coffee concoctions, anyway?
Now the I-Phone, that’s another matter.
Agreed. That drives me nuts.
>>>I agree with the author of the article but at the
risk of sounding like the grammar police it should
be “could not care less” rather than “could care less”<<<
Hillary wrote the Article?
She said she “could care less” about what Trump calls her.
I give the Hildebitch a pass. She is already an idiot
for any number of reasons.
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